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- YJIL Forum
Losing Sight of Judicial Independence: The Case of Mexico’s Judicial Reform
Gustavo López Nachón: Mexico’s latest judicial reform cloaks authoritarian intent in democratic garb, threatening the rule of law.
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- Book Review
Book Review - The New Haven School: American International Law
Samira Mathias: A legal school aimed at dignity, used to justify power—this review unpacks the paradox of American international law.
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- Symposia
The Yale Journal of International Law Fall 2024 Symposium: International Law and Women’s Rights
The Fall 2024 Symposium took place on October 24, 2024.
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- Symposia
International Legal Mechanisms to Safeguard Women’s Rights: An Analysis of Afghan Women’s Rights Under Taliban Rule
Roqia Samim: The ongoing gender apartheid under the Taliban regime undermines the effectiveness of international law in safeguarding women’s rights.
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- Symposia
Feminist Treaty Interpretation in International Law
Sissy Katsoni: Customary rules on treaty interpretation afford interpreters enough discretion to engage in feminism-informed interpretative outcomes.
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- Symposia
Addressing Femicide Through International Criminal Law: The Need for a Binding Legal Framework
Alessia Nicastro: Considering the devastating impact of femicide on women’s rights, it is imperative for international law to explicitly recognize it.
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- Symposia
Mothers of the Disappeared in Latin America and the Impact of Maternal Activism in the Development of International Law
Xilene Díaz Palacio, Carolina Lozano Martínez and Manuel Góngora-Mera: We highlight the mobilization of mothers of the disappeared in Latin America.
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- Symposia
The Yale School of International Law
In this Essay, Harold Hongju Koh discusses the Yale School of International Law and its focus in the next phase of the twenty-first century.
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- Symposia
The Reciprocity Dialectic in Transnational Corruption: The Relative Responsibility of Private and Public Actors Under International Law
The Essay explores the bilateral character of transnational corruption and the need to hold both public and private actors responsible.
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- Features Essays
On the Legality of Prosecuting State-Owned Enterprises: Halkbank v. United States
In this Features Essay, the authors discuss the legality of prosecuting foreign state-owned enterprises under international law.
Recent Publications:
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- YJIL Forum
Losing Sight of Judicial Independence: The Case of Mexico’s Judicial Reform
Gustavo López Nachón: Mexico’s latest judicial reform cloaks authoritarian intent in democratic garb, threatening the rule of law.
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- Book Review
Book Review - The New Haven School: American International Law
Samira Mathias: A legal school aimed at dignity, used to justify power—this review unpacks the paradox of American international law.
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- Symposia
The Yale Journal of International Law Fall 2024 Symposium: International Law and Women’s Rights
The Fall 2024 Symposium took place on October 24, 2024.
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- Symposia
Mothers of the Disappeared in Latin America and the Impact of Maternal Activism in the Development of International Law
Xilene Díaz Palacio, Carolina Lozano Martínez and Manuel Góngora-Mera: We highlight the mobilization of mothers of the disappeared in Latin America.
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- Symposia
International Legal Mechanisms to Safeguard Women’s Rights: An Analysis of Afghan Women’s Rights Under Taliban Rule
Roqia Samim: The ongoing gender apartheid under the Taliban regime undermines the effectiveness of international law in safeguarding women’s rights.
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- Symposia
Feminist Treaty Interpretation in International Law
Sissy Katsoni: Customary rules on treaty interpretation afford interpreters enough discretion to engage in feminism-informed interpretative outcomes.
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- Symposia
Addressing Femicide Through International Criminal Law: The Need for a Binding Legal Framework
Alessia Nicastro: Considering the devastating impact of femicide on women’s rights, it is imperative for international law to explicitly recognize it.
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- Symposia
The Yale School of International Law
In this Essay, Harold Hongju Koh discusses the Yale School of International Law and its focus in the next phase of the twenty-first century.
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- Symposia
The Reciprocity Dialectic in Transnational Corruption: The Relative Responsibility of Private and Public Actors Under International Law
The Essay explores the bilateral character of transnational corruption and the need to hold both public and private actors responsible.
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- Features Essays
On the Legality of Prosecuting State-Owned Enterprises: Halkbank v. United States
In this Features Essay, the authors discuss the legality of prosecuting foreign state-owned enterprises under international law.
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- Symposia
Comity and the Criminal Law: Reflections on Prosecutorial Legitimacy in Reisman’s World Public Order
The Essay evaluates the question of whether states should use criminal law enforcement as a tool of international affairs.
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- Symposia
Two Approaches to Economic Coercion
Jacob Katz Cogan explores regulatory and abolitionist approaches to economic coercion.
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- Symposia
Reisman’s Rules: Placing Intelligence and Collective Security in Context Two Years After Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine
The Essay examines how Reisman’s scholarship helps us understand the lessons from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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- Symposia
“Humanizing” Economic Sanctions? Lessons from International Humanitarian Law
This Features Essay is part of a series of contributions on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.
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- Symposia
Weapons Against the Weak: International Law and the Political Economy of Coercion
This Features Essay is part of a series of contributions on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.
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- Symposia
Sanctions, Dollar Hegemony, and the Unraveling of Third World Sovereignty
This Features Essay is part of a series of contributions on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.
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- Symposia
Sanctions and “Bio-Necro Collaboration”
This Features Essay is part of a series of contributions on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.
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- Symposia
Third World Approaches to International Law & Economic Sanctions
This series of Features Essays is an extension of YJIL’s 2023 symposium, Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) & Economic Sanctions.
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The Right to Development
The article examines how the New Haven School of Jurisprudence and Chinese traditional culture aid in realizing the right to development.
